Design Domination
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The podcast for accessibility, design and creative business, Design Domination helps graphic designers and web designers gain confidence, clarity and a competitive edge in a crowded marketplace.
Design Domination is hosted by veteran designer, creative business owner, accessibility specialist, educator and speaker Colleen Gratzer, who shares her real-world experience and insights into accessibility, design and creative business.
Enhance your design skills with accessibility and become more business savvy, so you get more respect and command higher rates.
Website: https://creative-boost.com
Music: https://www.bensound.com
Design Domination is hosted by veteran designer, creative business owner, accessibility specialist, educator and speaker Colleen Gratzer, who shares her real-world experience and insights into accessibility, design and creative business.
Enhance your design skills with accessibility and become more business savvy, so you get more respect and command higher rates.
Website: https://creative-boost.com
Music: https://www.bensound.com
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#200 When WCAG standards change, are graphic and web designers suddenly liable? Could past work be noncompliant? Learn how to protect yourself.
#199 Wondering how to show accessibility work in your portfolio, especially if you didn't design the project? Find out how to present your accessible design, PDF remediation, website audits and collaborative work clearly and professionally.
#198 Struggling to price accessibility work? Get proven strategies for charging for audits, remediation and accessible design so that your projects are profitable.
#197 Are you unsure that your PDFs are truly accessible? Find out 5 methods to check if a PDF is accessible, so you can stop guessing and be confident your PDFs are actually accessible. You'll also find out two mistakes many designers make when assessing a PDF's accessibility.
#196 Do logos need to be accessible and meet the WCAG accessibility requirements? The answer will surprise you! Find out how to make your logo designs more accessible and reach a wider audience and how that helps your branding work.
#195 Something very easy to do for document accessibility is to add a few bits of metadata. Find out why metadata is important for accessibility, what metadata to add and how to add metadata to a document.
#194 Find out 10 surprising facts about me—my education, other jobs I've had, a famous relative, a paralyzing fear, the type of design work I refuse to do and more.
#193 People spend several hours a day consuming video content. If your audio and video content isn't accompanied by a transcript, it will be much less accessible to everyone, not just certain users. Find out how to create a transcript and 7 reasons you should.
#192 If you're new to creating accessible PDFs from InDesign, Word, PowerPoint or if you don't have an efficient process, then you may face certain challenges. Get 5 tips for creating accessible PDFs efficiently.
191 Find out what these website accessibility insights from the 2025 WebAIM Million report, using the WAVE automated checker, mean for you as a web designer or developer today.
#190 You might think that video captions are only for accessibility and for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. Here are 7 reasons to add captions to videos that may surprise you.
#189 Another website accessibility overlay company has been sued. This time it involves UserWay and a class-action lawsuit. Find out what this means for you as a website designer or developer.
Graphic designers often ask if accessibility laws and guidelines apply to print design, not just websites, document and other digital content. The answer might surprise you.
#187 An accessibility statement is an important but sometimes overlooked part of a website. Find out why a website should have an accessibility statement, what it should include and how to create an accessibility statement.
186: The June 2025 deadline for the European Accessibility Act is fast approaching. Find out what you need to know and how it may affect the websites you build, even if you're outside of the E.U.
185: What you need to know about the FTC complaint against accessiBe and what it means for web designers and developers.
#184 Find out from this accessible design critique how accessibility can affect food package design in the marketplace.
#183 Find out the biggest accessibility mistake when it comes to document design, web design or infographic design and how to avoid it, so that your designs will be more accessible.
#182 Find out about why it's important to understand the difference between accessibility compliance versus conformance when doing accessibility work.
#181 Do you think accessibility doesn't apply to you as a designer? Are you trying to get others on board with it? Here are 10 things you should know about accessibility in 5 minutes.
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love the info on this podcast.